{"id":1445,"date":"2009-07-30T23:07:41","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T22:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1445"},"modified":"2013-11-13T21:31:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:31:48","slug":"birds-on-a-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/birds-on-a-wire\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds on a wire"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

I came across this flock of house martins (plus a few swallows) this morning on the way to work. Too good an opportunity to miss! They tend to flock together like this as they prepare for their return to winter in Africa. This doesn't bode well for the weather over the next few weeks if they are really about to set off on their travels.
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<\/span> House martin (right), young swallow (left)<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> Swallow<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> House martin<\/span><\/p>\n

And as a sort of postscript to last night's entry where I mentioned the scrap between two young foxes. Well, they repeated the game in front of the trail cam later on \ud83d\ude09 Edit: see comments… I've revised my impression of what's going on in the video. It may be the vixen being aggressive with a cub (possibly not hers, hard to tell)<\/i><\/p>\n

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Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980],"tags":[1128,562,1165],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-fox","tag-house-martin","tag-swallow","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t